This unit is offered in the following courses

Unit aim

Encourages the demonstration of substantial progress towards producing a coherent and competent body of work which shows professional ability and individuality of expression. Portfolios manifest personal research interests and attitudes to contemporary debate. Aspects of professional practice are discussed.

Unit content

Exhibition proposal writing

Postgraduate study opportunities

Professional practice

Issues and options

Workshop and studio establishment.

Exhibition strategies and production

Career goals for the artist

Studio routines and strategies

Media problem solving.

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

demonstrate an ability to establish and pursue an ambitious and practical individual studio program

Intellectual rigour

Communication and social skills

2

demonstrate substantial progress towards producing a coherent and competent body of work which demonstrates professional ability and individuality of expression

Communication and social skills

3

manifest individual research interests and personal responses to contemporary debates

Intellectual rigour

Ethical practice

4

demonstrate specific media problem solving within the context of an individual work program

Communication and social skills

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate an ability to establish and pursue an ambitious and practical individual studio program

GA1:
Intellectual rigour

GA6:
Communication and social skills

demonstrate substantial progress towards producing a coherent and competent body of work which demonstrates professional ability and individuality of expression

GA6:
Communication and social skills

manifest individual research interests and personal responses to contemporary debates

GA1:
Intellectual rigour

GA3:
Ethical practice

demonstrate specific media problem solving within the context of an individual work program

GA6:
Communication and social skills

Teaching and assessment

Notice

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